Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:37:18 +0100 From: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real performance comparisons (was: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!!) Message-ID: <19990317173718.A2510@schell.de> In-Reply-To: <19990317111720.O429@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:17:20AM %2B1030 References: <19990316150715.A3316@schell.de> <19990317111720.O429@lemis.com>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:17:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Andreas was quite specific about his results. The only mistake he > made (and one about which I commented) was that he initially accepted > the fact that he got *no* performance improvement from the SMP > implementation. This is at least a documentation problem of the SuSE > distribution. This only demonstrates clearly that he lacks basic Linux knowledge. No Linux distribution ships with a SMP ready kernel. As a matter of fact, I would not make a benchmark publically available, if I just managed to install a system. > As somebody else said, it *would* be interesting to compare Linux and > FreeBSD performance objectively and in detail. The only comparison of > this nature that we have at the moment is from the Gartner group > (http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8), > which shows that FreeBSD outperforms Linux by in the order of 40% in > certain server applications. While I don't doubt the validity of this > information, it would be interesting to research where the differences > lie, and the extent to which such measurements are typical. <sarcasm> Don't doubt anything. The Gartner Group is always right. </sarcasm> -- Regards, Sascha Schumann | Consultant | finger sas@schell.de | for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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